Artillery Auto-fire Toggle / Option for disabling artillery auto target / turn off the artillery (train)

[Termak]

+1, also let us choose the automatic range

[Hiladdar]

+1 on this idea also.

There are situations where I want a train to just pull up, and open up on everything in range. There are other situations where I it is better for me to manually target where I want the artillery to fire upon.

Hiladdar

[Nomadic Steppe]

That the artillery train will has an on / off switch.

When it is off it never fires, except with the item "Artillery targeting remote".

When it is on, it shoots at everything in its range.

Because it is annoying that he starts shooting at everything in his range every time they stop you generating huge unwanted attacks.

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged in older post with more global proposition.

[Darinth]

This is honestly one of those things that's a bit strange doesn't exist to me... I don't have a way to make my artillery not fire?

[Impatient]

This is honestly one of those things that's a bit strange doesn't exist to me... I don't have a way to make my artillery not fire?

Over-automation

[Spaghettificator]

It's very annoying when i stop my artillery train for some reason and the canons start shooting at random nearby enemy bases, calling in a horde of biters to my location. So i think it would be much better if the wagons or the whole train had a button to turn them off when needed.

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into older topic with same suggestion.

[Dark_star]

yes please

[Dark_star]

Great idea much needed

[Glad_S]

YES! I want it.

[Factoruser]

Agree for "turrets" but not for artillery wagon. Further this should be controlled by the circuit system. Artillery guns should send their ammunition count to the network and beeing enabled on condition.

The wagon is ment to fire automatically where you send it to. If you don't want this, you have to build a cannon. The only thing is that the artillery wagon is much better than a cargo wagon to transport artillery shells (100 instead of 40). But I won't consider this as a problem. I'd feel sorry for the planet if someone needs THAT MANY shells as fast as possible...

[Oktokolo]

The only thing is that the artillery wagon is much better than a cargo wagon to transport artillery shells (100 instead of 40). But I won't consider this as a problem. I'd feel sorry for the planet if someone needs THAT MANY shells as fast as possible...

As long as the shells are not nukes, a mere hundred of them do not get one very far.
Even more so, when they are wasted by the autofire AI getting only a third of the kills per shot compared to human targeting.

Artillery shells stacking lower than nukes still feels wrong...

[hale42]

even with the current system you cant target via remote unless there is an artillery turret with ammo near by.

a simple fix of "manual only" and enable on condition would solve so many problems

[foamy]

even with the current system you cant target via remote unless there is an artillery turret with ammo near by.

a simple fix of "manual only" and enable on condition would solve so many problems

Yeah, it'd be nice.

[Impatient]

+10

[Snicker]

Why is this not ingame yet? It shocked me when I first tried the artillery and it startet pulling every aliens for miles towards me. Without any option to turn it off.

[planetmaker]

Isn't it a simple switch to not put ammo into an artillery turret?

The auto-targeting of the artillery train got me, too, though. It doesn't fire when on manual control, but auto-fires when the train is on automatic schedule. Which makes sense. But is not intuitive. And schedule also seems to apply to the temporary train stops which can be deadly.

[Koub]

pulling every aliens for miles towards me.

That's because they're triggered by the use imperial system units

More seriously, it would be nice to be able to choose between "Moving artillery train into position" and "Wrecking havoc on those nests" indeed.

[MassiveDynamic]

Agreed
+160 imperial (+100 metric)